Media Coverage
The work done by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members (and even some students) is regularly highlighted in newspapers, online media outlets and more. Below you’ll find links to articles and videos of Feinberg in the news.
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The New York Times
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For Cancer Centers, Proton Therapy’s Promise Is Undercut by Lagging Demand
Centers in Somerset, N.J., and Oklahoma City run by privately held ProCure have defaulted on their debts, according to the investment firm Loop Capital. A center associated with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, a hospital consortium, in Washington State lost $19 million in the 2015 fiscal year before restructuring its debt, documents show. A center near Chicago lost tens of millions of dollars before its own restructuring as part of a 2013 sale to hospitals now affiliated with Northwestern Medicine, according to regulatory documents.
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The New York Times
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The Strong and Stressed Black Woman
I provide therapy to people from all socio-economic and racial backgrounds. I am the only black female clinical psychologist on the faculty of the department of psychiatry at Northwestern University, and black women often come to me in secret, feeling alone and embarrassed. They come despite friends and family telling them to “just pray.” They come because they are “desperate” and “can’t take it anymore.” I often get requests for informal consultation via email, LinkedIn, even Facebook. They’re skeptical about mental health treatment. They don’t want therapy, just to talk, and maybe get some advice.
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The New York Times
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A Lifesaving Pump for Cancer Patients Is Being Phased Out
At Northwestern University, Dr. Ryan P. Merkow said he had only one pump but many patients who needed it. “Now I have to decide who gets this potentially lifesaving therapy,” he said. One patient is about to become a father, and Dr. Merkow said, “I desperately want to help him.”
The devices, called Codman pumps, are made by Cerenovus, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which told doctors in a letter dated April 4 that it had decided to stop production effective April 1 “because of significant and multiple raw material supply constraints within the manufacturing process.”
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Crain’s Chicago Business
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Northwestern Memorial improves Leapfrog patient safety grade
Thirty-seven Illinois hospitals got the highest grade for patient safety in the latest Leapfrog Group assessment. Among them was Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which jumped back to an A ranking after three years of B and C. “Northwestern improved on several (patient safety indicators) and infection measures and made improvements on the patient experience measures related to communication by doctors and nurses, as well as staff responsiveness,” Erica Mobley, director of operations at Leapfrog Group, said in an email.
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Chicago Tribune
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In safety rankings, Chicago-area hospitals earn A’s, and one F
Nine Illinois hospitals received A’s for the last five years in a row: University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington, OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Elmhurst Hospital and Amita Health St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates.
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USA Today
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Doctors: Danny Farquhar’s aneurysm, recovery likely measured in months and years, not weeks
Experts said aneurysms appear most often in people over the age of 50. Babak Jahromi, a neurosurgeon and professor at Northwestern University’s medical school, wrote in an email that having a ruptured aneurysm at 31 like Farquhar is “less common” but “not rare.” Jahromi, McGail and Riina said that it’s possible, but not certain, that Farquhar’s pitching activity could have raised his blood pressure and contributed to the rupture. “It’s not so surprising that it’s while participating in a game,” Riina said. “But other times, people have aneurysms when they’re just walking down the street or sitting at home.”
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CBS News
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White Sox reliever Danny Farquhar remains hospitalized after suffering hemorrhage
White Sox medical personnel clustered around him and then carried him to the clubhouse, and a waiting ambulance brought him to a hospital, where he is now in what a team official calls the fight of his life. Farquhar had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage brought on by a ruptured aneurysm. We asked Dr. Babak Jahromi, a professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital if there are any warning signs. “There generally isn’t until the aneurysm leaks and at that point patients experience a sudden severe headache,” Dr. Jahromi said. But how could a 31-year old professional athlete go from peak performer to hospital patient in the time it takes his 93 mile an hour fastball to reach home plate?
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The Wall Street Journal
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English Literature Isn’t Brain Surgery
There have been some modest attempts to streamline medical education in the U.S. One-third of America’s 141 med schools now allow students to pursue a bachelor’s and medical degree simultaneously. But these programs are very small, and they don’t save much time, since only 20% last less than eight years. Nonetheless, their performance is encouraging. A study of Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine found that students admitted through its seven-year accelerated program achieved equivalent outcomes to those completing degrees seriatim.
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Chicago Tribune
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Chicago mastectomy tattoo artist expands work with, for cancer patients, is featured in film
He now speaks regularly at breast cancer conferences across the U.S. and abroad: “It’s like doctors and plastic surgeons and experts and then this tattooer,” he says, but notes that he has unique insights to offer: “I realized that I spend four to five hours with a woman, and doctors spend 15 minutes at a time, so I’m kind of privy to different things.” Recently, he has been talking with doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital about how his work might be offered to breast cancer patients there, and he has worked with two Minnesota plastic surgeons on ideas for how breast reconstruction might be planned in advance with scars placed to enable easier concealment by tattoos.
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Chicago Tribune
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‘I have someone to rely on’: For gay teens, romance reduces the stress of bias, harassment
The psychological distress caused by anti-gay attitudes and actions has long been a problem for gay youth, but a recent study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology finds hope in a new place: young love. While single lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people ages 16 to 26 experienced a surge in emotional distress in response to anti-gay victimization, those involved in romantic relationships did not. “That’s a really new finding,” said study co-author Brian Mustanski, a professor of medical social sciences and psychology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
